Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-02 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Hemer wrote: | Hi Derek, | |> Mark D. Baushke wrote: | Frank Hemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> |> However I didn't have a better idea. Using .base instead can be | |> | similar | |> miss-interpreted since there is BASE. How about |> replacing

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-02 Thread Frank Hemer
Hi Derek, > Mark D. Baushke wrote: > | Frank Hemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > |> However I didn't have a better idea. Using .base instead can be > | > | similar > | > |> miss-interpreted since there is BASE. How about replacing '.root' > |> with '.tail', and replacing '.origin' with '.root'? >

Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?

2005-03-02 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Haible wrote: | Therefore I'd suggest a new interface: void* | pagealign_alloc(size_t); void pagealign_free(void*); | | and do the implementation as follows: - If mmap() is available, use | mmap and some bookkeeping for pagealign_alloc, and munmap

Re: `cvs up -p FILE' does not detect write failure

2005-03-02 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks like no version of CVS detects the write failure > caused by this sort of command: > > $ cvs -Q up -p README > /dev/full > $ > > It should do something like this instead: > > $ ./cvs -Q up -p README > /dev/full > cvs [update aborted]: write

Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?

2005-03-02 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Haible wrote: |> (Most of this is hardly necessary for CVS since it is already |> caching unused buffer datas rather than freeing them, and reusing |> them as they are needed. | | | This is actually a bad idea, because 1) It steals memory from the

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-02 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark D. Baushke wrote: | Frank Hemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | |> However I didn't have a better idea. Using .base instead can be | similar |> miss-interpreted since there is BASE. How about replacing '.root' |> with '.tail', and replacing '.origin'

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-02 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Hemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However I didn't have a better idea. Using .base instead can be similar > miss-interpreted since there is BASE. How about replacing '.root' with > '.tail', and replacing '.origin' with '.root'? Hmmm... I li

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-02 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just have one quibble, with your usage of > ".root". The CVS manual and other sources use > "root" to refer to what you are referring to as > the "origin" of a branch. The logic being that a > branch is alwa

Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?

2005-03-02 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I asked Jim Kingdon, who I thought I might be able to blame for the original code, why valloc() was chosen. He replied: | Well, if the buffer.c buffers are split across pages, you might | have two page faults instead of one, the kernel would have to |

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-02 Thread Larry Jones
Derek Price writes: > > I'm not sure what I would recommend in place of what you are calling > the "root", but I would like to see ".root" refer to the revision on > the parent branch. As far as I can see, what Frank is calling the "root" is meaningless in CVS. I'd just get rid of it. -Larry Jo

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-02 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Hemer wrote: | Not a problem, its just a #define. However I didn't have a better | idea. Using .base instead can be similar miss-interpreted since | there is BASE. How about replacing '.root' with '.tail', and | replacing '.origin' with '.root'? Y

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-02 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Hemer wrote: | On Wednesday 02 March 2005 08:11, Mark D. Baushke wrote: | |> Hi Frank, |> |> I am looking forward to your feature... | | | :-) I'm looking forward to this too. I just have one quibble, with your usage of ".root". The CVS manual a

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-02 Thread Frank Hemer
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 17:18, Derek Price wrote: > Frank Hemer wrote: > | On Wednesday 02 March 2005 08:11, Mark D. Baushke wrote: > |> Hi Frank, > |> > |> I am looking forward to your feature... > |> > | :-) > > I'm looking forward to this too. I just have one quibble, with your > usage of ".

Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?

2005-03-02 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Haible wrote: | Is this all worth it? For what purpose do you need the memory to be | page-aligned? That's a good question, as the original isn't my code. I was just assuming that whoever wrote it originally knew what they were doing. There is o

log between tags

2005-03-02 Thread Tommaso Massimi
second send tentative, it seems the first was deliveredy to Larry only. original message follows --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tommaso Massimi writes: > > > > I made a lot of commit on a file between two tags, >